The Apache Foundation released NetBeans version 10.0 in December of 2018, a complete Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java, PHP, HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, & Groovy programming. The NetBeans project began at Sun Microsystems as a code editor & programming environment for Java. Oracle acquired the project as part of the Sun merger and subsequently donated it to the Apache Foundation for incubation or further development on open source community foundations. NetBeans 10 supports PHP 7.3 & MySQL database installation on Windows desktops for web/mobile application programming in sandbox environments. Web developers working with PHP scripts to build new custom themes and modules for CMS platforms or ecommerce stores will appreciate the functionality of NetBeans. The NetBeans 10 IDE has an object-oriented design with a vast marketplace of third-party plugins that extend the framework, although not all are currently compatible with version 10. In the IDE sector, NetBeans competes with Eclipse, JetBrains PHP Storm (IntelliJ Idea), Zend Studio, & other solutions for PHP application development, while Visual Studio, PyCharm, & Sublime Text are more popular with Python, C/C++, Visual Basic, & ASP.Net programmers.

The Node.js web server standard was introduced in 2009 by Ryan Dahl and has subsequently become a major aspect of contemporary JavaScript development platforms. Apache web servers function on the basis of threaded processes, whereas Node.js servers operate with event loops. With many simultaneous users, threaded concurrency becomes "leaky" on Apache, while Node.js servers use callbacks to eliminate wait times for extremely fast concurrency rates. JavaScript operates by design on the basis of event loops which Dahl transcribed into a server-side runtime environment to build a web server with a non-blocking I/O request processing structure. This allows Node.js application programmers to script highly concurrent programs on the same hardware that stream data at faster rates while also supporting TCP, DNS, & HTTP without Apache. The use of chunked requests/responses, keep-alive functions, and familiar APIs that operate in a platform independent manner has led to the success of Node.js as a web server standard, although it also includes a Python dependency. Nearly 10 years later, Dahl has deconstructed the mistakes still present in Node.js to relaunch a new platform written in Rust/Go that works with TypeScript & the Google V8 runtime engine in a secure sandbox environment.

Last month AWS held the 7th annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with 50,000 attendees &100,000+ more tuning in on live stream. The conference featured over 2,100 break-out sessions, seminars, & presentations. Twelve & a half years after the launch of AWS, the company has millions of active hosting customers in startup companies, enterprise corporations, retail, small business, & the public sector. Major startups who build on AWS are AirBNB, Pinterest, & Stripe. In financial services, AWS powers Goldman Sachs, Capital One, & Barclays in cloud data center operations. AWS is the preferred service provider for Fortune 500 companies like J&J, GE, Shell, BP, Halliburton, Netflix, Disney, Fox & Expedia. AWS dominates every vertical in enterprise with a $27 billion revenue run rate and 46% YoY growth. AWS currently holds a 52% total share of the cloud market worldwide with main competitors Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, & Ali Baba. AWS also inspires a broad ecosystem which includes companies like Infosys, Acquia, Adobe, Accenture, WorkDay, VMware, & Rackspace. Customers want access to widest range of tools for software development when building web/mobile applications, where AWS has the most options for programmers. Industry competitors are currently chasing & imitating AWS cloud hosting services w/out being able to offer the same platform capabilities.

After being proposed initially by Dries Buytaert in 2017 at DrupalCon, Vienna, community members now estimate that 2020 will be the year when Drupal officially adds React as a theme option to the core CMS distribution. Drupal 7 primarily uses PHPTemplate as the theme engine, while Drupal 8 implements the Twig & Symfony2 frameworks. Although both professionally licensed and open source themes for Drupal 8 have been successful on Twig/Symfony2, there is a growing development sector advancing decoupled or “headless” methodologies based on Node.js. What is not clear is the level of support required for Node.js in the future of retail web hosting for Drupal, with some sites opting for a progressively decoupled or fully decoupled approach as alternatives to monolithic traditional installations. There are currently different installation requirements for running Drupal 8 on NGINX vs. Apache, whereas Node.js is equally compatible with both server formats for building new decoupled Drupal solutions.

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